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I would recommend an Information Diet.

If you would permit me, here is my experience with the book

https://chadkohalyk.com/2012/09/04/the-information-diet/

and the results:

https://chadkohalyk.com/2012/09/30/breaking-fast/

(I am not to be self-promotiony or anything... the conservation of attention, time and _things_ are just topics that I spend a lot of time thinking and writing about. I am not trying to sell a book or anything. I don't even have ads on my site. Just trying to be helpful)

We moved to Canada from Japan about 5 years ago. We only started downsizing 2 years ago, and now we have way less stuff than we ever did in Japan.

See my old apartment here: https://chadkohalyk.com/2016/01/22/our-japanese-mansion/

I wish we here in North America planned our spaces much better.

Downsizing is not just about space. It is about lessening stress, having a smaller environmental impact, increasing financial freedom, and many other things.

I recommend it.

Because KeePass is built for individuals, not teams?

There is a chapter in Tom Slee's (excellent) book "What's Yours is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy" which goes into depth about rep systems and product ratings, why they are different, and why rep systems are a bad way to measure things. There are a bunch of footnotes. I recommend it if you are looking for an even more critical take.

Remember, it isn't just about planned obsolescence or the Web 2.0 centralization of everything. Read the books. Those are just the _symptoms_. All of these "digital dissenters" are not anti-technology... that is an oversimplification... many of them love tech (look at J-Lan!)... it is the underlying neoliberal political and economic system that _drives_ the current tech industry that they object to—aka. the California Ideology. That is what lies at the foundation of their criticism.

Really surprised Evgeny Morozov isn't also tagged as a "digital dissenter" in this piece. Or Richard Stallman for that matter.

All good with the Android, but disappointed this is Chrome. You would think they would have a FF plugin by now!

Reminds me sorta of The Three-Body Problem.

> … your average business today doesn't seem to give a shit about truth…, fairness…, goodwill … and benefiting all concerned (a third of the companies out there would probably not exist if their founders gave a rat's ass about their effect on society). Call me cynical, but I get the feeling that morality and honor got sacrificed for competitiveness. Internet businesses are a special case…

I thought you were talking about internet businesses!

http://www.foldingtext.com is my go to Markdown editor. Combine with Notational Velocity which reads from a folder on Dropbox, it is great. Especially since I can edit with Draft on my Android phone and tablet.

TextNut looks like it will combine the two (organization and editing) but I will wait until it has flatfile compatibility.

I Use nvALT on OS X, and Drafts on Android.

> Many of the people who signed this letter probably believe that C-51 is bad for other, more fundamental reasons.

This is basically the reason I signed this letter.

I had actually previously signed the regular citizen petition, but when OpenMedia approached me to sign this, I was on board — not just for my business but also personally.

More power to you! I worked in fuel shipping and bunkering, and the fact that many times a day I had to haul a typewriter up 60ft of rope ladder to produce receipts to be signed by the captain/chief eng. because the only tech they trusted was CARBON PAPER in the year 2008 simply boggled!

Because so many apps assume Dropbox, I still have it. Though I moved all private docs into SpiderOak.

Totally concur.

I wrote a review of it today. Not very in depth, just some thoughts.

http://www.chadkohalyk.com/blog/2014/09/28/zero-to-one/

+1. This has been my longest standing complaint after switching to Android a couple of years ago.

Not open source.

> And even then, if his counterparts are not doing the same, we're back to the original problem.

Not necessarily. It means he removes the "trove" aspect of his email inbox. Putting together all his communications from the recipients adds to the difficulty (not impossible since "they" have all the metadata and others are probably compromised), but at least he removes the major point of failure.

I thought there might be a mass exodus, but that hasn't happened yet. What I think might happen is people will keep using the vanilla cloud for day to day, but then switch platforms for "sensitive" topics. IE. you send me an email about the special project, then we go on Silent Circle to continue the discussion. Kinda like talking on the phone and then meeting in person.

This of course does not solve the metadata problem. But I don't think the populace is really considering this angle. Protecting content is much more visceral.

Already on the list. Thanks for the rec.

Though, that is the technologist's take. I wonder if there is work done from the traditional political philosophy department?

Remember Paul Stamatiou's post about storage for photographer's [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6020969]? Well, we have been thinking about this for a while now and are looking for some feedback.

+1 to Masnick. Google Contacts wreaks havoc (when it actually syncs) on my nicely organized vCard-based Contacts, especially when they duplicate cards that are in different or special groups.

FINALLY. I was going through every comment on this thread and I was wondering why no one was talking about security. This is one of the key features of the data warehousing business we have been contemplating.

I would just like to point out that I believe the CodeSchool methodology is brilliant. I have tried fizzbuzzing my way through Codecademy, reading books and all sorts. But that is not the way I learn: I am an adult. I need to know context. I need goal oriented learning. Furthermore, I am an audio learner more than a visual learner, and because my memory is not as good as it used to be, I need more of the Kinesthetic.

CodeSchool isn't deep, but it gives me a solid overview of a topic and is good at what it does. I _wish_ there was a site out there that could teach me programming, not from fundamentals like a child, but from overarching context and concepts like an adult.

@zachgallant I will try out http://codehs.com next. Thanks for the rec!

I really enjoyed his bit about how listeners become (unidirectional) "friends" with the hosts that they spend so much time listening too. Dan really understands the sense of loss that the fans feel over not being informed, and I am glad he broached that topic. Of course, this doesn't justify some of the showings of massive entitlement on Twitter etc. But I am glad he recognized the emotional investment of the fans.

Great concept and execution. Love the icon!

I am all for a Kansai meetup.

What about http://contractual.ly ?

Homepage Builder > Dreamweaver > Textmate > BBEdit.

I haven't gotten quite as fluent in BBEdit as I am in Textmate though, so a new release is very tempting. That said, I love the support and constant updates from BareBones.

Consistency is still important, especially on the "truck" computers which are much more prone to damaging actions by novice users compared to iOS. Hell, messing with standard interface elements can even mess advanced users up. Opened up Logic or Sound space designer recently?

Maybe regular users _are_ getting more used to different looking widgets (eg. All the different kinds of custom buttons on websites) but I don't think the HIG should be binned just yet. It needs to be abstracted: specific UI concepts/patterns, rather than specific colors of dropdown menus etc. That said, universal, system level elements like window controls shouldn't be messed with IMO.